Macro-4 Draft Object Promotion-Forbidden Register — R2-B2 (2026-06-19)

Date: 2026-06-19 · Workstream: R2-B2-MACRO-4-STAGING-WORKBENCH-IO-CONTRACT-TD-ENTRY-GATE-2026-06-19 (Deliverable 18 of 90) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: promotion-forbidden register · READ-ONLY · NON-ENACTING · NON-AUTHORIZING · NO write performed.

Metadata convention. Editorial revision (rev1) only. Storage revision/content_length authoritative at read time.

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0. Status and non-authorization

STATUS: PASS — engineering / design-only. The register that holds the promotion firewall: no draft becomes production automatically. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

Make explicit that nothing in the draft lifecycle flows to production without a separate Owner gate.

2. Sources / evidence read

Pilot-slice staging IO contract §6 (promotion firewall); bad-input/delete-fast plan AC-10; inspect-producer §7. Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

"Staging proves; it never promotes." A validated draft is evidence the producer is contract-correct; turning that into a production write is a distinct, separately-authorized act behind the full Owner gate (Điều 32).

4. Evidence / analysis — forbidden promotions

Forbidden automatic flow	Why
candidate inspect_* → production inspect_*	promotion is a separate Owner gate, never an implicit side-effect
draft producer → standing production producer	needs channel + S2 + Điều 32
draft evidence → production approval/certify	S7 records, never decides; B4 owns certified
draft surface → reuse as a production table	workbench is disposable; production is birth_registry only

5. Contract / requirement / matrix / result

Every promotion is forbidden now and gated later. An engineering PASS on a draft never authorizes a promotion. Any automatic draft→production step is ACTUAL_TD_DRIFT/firewall breach → HOLD. Status this run: NOT triggered.

6. Owner-gated future work

Promoting a validated draft requires Điều 32 + standing B2 + channel decision + S2 owner; forbidden now.

7. What remains unresolved

The promotion mechanism is intentionally undesigned here; promotion stays a future Owner act.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should confirm no deliverable encodes an automatic draft→production promotion.